On Friday May 2 activists targeted BHP Billiton’s headquarters in the Melbourne CDB. They were there to highlight the fact that it is big business companies like BHP who are to blame for the problems of global warming. More actions have been planned for the future with the next one being at 4pm on Friday May 30 at 180 Lonsdale Street Melbourne. See a short video of the action below. (more…)

The Socialist Party has just published a new pamphlet called Socialism and the Environment. It is a collation of material written by members of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Australia, Britain and the United States. SP is the Australian section of the CWI. (more…)

SP Newsletter No.209
Without rapid and significant reductions in green house gas emissions we will face a near-apocalyptic situation very soon. It is well and truly time for working people to take radical action to defend our futures from the profits of the big business polluters. (more…)

…victims of global capitalism
One in six of the world’s population (854 million) do not have enough food to eat. Every year, despite the recent boom in the world economy, another four million are added to this total. Now the developing crisis in the world economy, combined with rising food prices, spells disaster for workers and poor around the world. Ken Douglas reports. (more…)

Everyday we see more commercial and state funded campaigns promoting individual action on climate change. We are told to switch off the light, turn off the tap and switch to “green energy”. But can our personal lifestyle choices alone save the environment?
By Kylie McGregor, Socialist Party Melbourne (more…)

SP Newsletter No.201
Catastrophe faces our planet because of climate change. A whole number of studies, reports and films have highlighted this fact. In February of last year, a report written by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that temperatures could rise as much as 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. (more…)

The controversial plan to deepen Melbourne’s shipping channels in Port Phillip Bay has outraged locals and environmentalists alike. Despite the opposition that exists the State and Federal Labor governments plan to go ahead.
By Kirk Leonard, Socialist Party Melbourne (more…)

Held on the Indonesian island of Bali, December’s Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conference was yet another huge failure in a long line of conferences addressing the issues of climate change and global warming.
By Stephen Rigney, Socialist Party (more…)

Many Australians will not know of George Monbiot. He is one of the best left wing journalists writing in the British media today and he was briefly a member of Respect.
By Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party Melbourne (more…)

THE UN climate change talks in Bali to discuss a follow up to the discredited Kyoto treaty are taking place after the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) update on global warming warned for the first time that some of its effects are already irreversible.
By Pete Dickenson, Socialist Party (more…)